The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-30
PERSONAL.

GEORGE BANCROFT, the hi storian, will be Sc
Oct 4.
! THE sAGEs of New York say that young King
don Gould can now put his great toe in his little
mouth.
MILT G.. BARLOW. the imprisoned minstrel.
was once private secretary to the famous George
ID. Prentice.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES says that English
people are taller, stouter and healthier than
New Englanders.
Mrs. HUGHES HALLETT, nee Emily Schaum-
burg, proposes, like Lady Dixie, to stick to her
husband through it all.
SUNSET Coxs BOOK, isles Of the Princes, &"
has just issued His Diversions of a Diplomat"
will appear in November.
SENATOR BLAIR insists that his educational
bill is the only measure to save the Republican
party from defeat next year.
THE Sultan of Turkey proposes to visit Lon
don and Berlin in order To have personal inter
views with Queen Victoria and the Emperor
William. N-
CoMdANDER-IN-C CHIEF FAIRoHILD of the Grand
Army of the Republic, has stopped smoking,
after having beer addicted to the habit from
young manhood
Miss OcTAv1A HILL, of Boston, recently enter
tanned all her tenants, to the number Of 700 or
800. Miss Hill will be remembered as the pioneer
in house-tenement reform.
A FRENCHMAN is said to be writing a book
Wnlcn VIII show that the bard OF Avon of
French descent, and his name was originally
jacques Pierre, or in plain English John Peter.
THE richest man in Vermont is Col Estey, of
BrGttleboFo, lie Is worth at the present
moment 20 ,50c, 600, all made in trade, He never
specuated a dollar in any of the pet stocks or
bonds.
MISS Lucy RIpsrN is the latest dress reforner
She halls from Detroit aud SAYS that the gown
for women is an insignia OF serfdom. She
favorS either trousers or knickerbockers for the
fair SEX
SAMUEL ADAMS Turner is living in South Scit.
uatc Mass, at the age of sc. He remembers
Ebenezer Webb, who died in the first year of
this century, and who had talked with the chill
dren OF those who came over la the May
flower.
OH DAYS when Alfred de Cordova. the New
York broker. doesn't want TO leave his com
Portable home near North Branch. n. j., carrier
pigeons, sent out by his clerks. bring him hourly
quotations. The distance is 43 miles, but the
birds never get lost.
TIE wife of Prof George F. Holmes, Of the
University of Virginia, died, after a lingering
illness. at Charlottesville, Va, on Monday. She
was a sister Of John B. Floyd, who was Governor
Of Georgia and Secretary Of War under
President Buchanan.
Mr.. MYEAII, the London photographer whose
new method of cOloring photographs has created
decided stir i'm the scientific world, received
his training as an experimental and analytical
chemist In this country prior 20 his settling In
lohuol, forty years ago.
Mas. RACHEL STILLwAaoE. OF Flushing claims
70 DE the oldest woman on Long Island, She has
Just celebrated her 1921 birthday surrounded by
descendants 20 even the fifth generation. Three
quarters OF century ago the fame 81 Mrs
5tllwngens Deauty extended as far South as
Baltimore
j. NJ BAILEY. once fainous as the wit OF the
Danbnry Mars. has faded from the humorous
world aud u nov an actor IA a daily repeated
domestic tragedy, His wife y insane aud de-
inands hih eytire attention. lie must dress her
and arrange her hair, and attend 20 al her
wants. She Il like child, and he gives her all
M aiecilqu, Tine aud attention, liis devotion
- Described ~ soll1ihins haigle.